Anti-Laureate of the People's Republic of Cork

This article was first published in the Cork Evening Echo in 2006 I hate sports. There’s no more succinct way of putting it. Whenev...

The last time I introduced Dermot Healy in 2012 he was so taken with what I said, he asked for a copy of it afterwards.  As a tribute to ...

I’m delighted to have a poem in the latest Ambush Review . Ambush is a San Francisco based journal which comes out, miraculously, once...

Click here to read the winning poems There were nearly 1700 entries in this year's competition. Our bank had announced it could no l...

There were nearly 1700 entries this year. I will be issuing a judge's statement later. Congratulations to all mentioned here and a big ...

The new Southword (no 25) is online packed full of all sorts of literary goodies such as Molia Dumbleton’s O’Faolain Prize winning story...

The problem with having every live reading recorded these days, either in audio or video, is that if you read a new poem, which you ha...